A year of hopping between Airbnbs made me notice how much

A year of hopping between Airbnbs made me notice how much of travel actually happens in the ordinary gaps: figuring out which grocery store locals use, timing your mornings around church bells or school traffic, realizing the best part of Flagstaff wasn’t the rental but the small events calendar taped inside a coffee shop window. The trips I remember most aren’t the “must-sees” anymore — they’re the places that briefly let me fall into someone else’s routine.